uPDP-11 is working now!

Hey gang, I just got my MicroPDP-11/73 running this morning! It works quite well it seems. 'RSX-11M-PLUS v3.0 BL24D 512.KW SYSTEM:"GOOFY "' is the introductory line. Regarding documentation: I have a full set of RSX-11M (non-Plus) manuals for version 4.2 plus a small Pocket Reference for RSX-11M (non-Plus) ver. 3.1. How close is the RSX-11M-non-Plus 4.2 manuals to RSX-11M+ ver 3.0? I have absolutely no hardware docs though :(, so I have to depend upon Sunsite, etc. and you folks. Anyway, next task is how to get past the user name and password problem. There recently was a discussion here regarding breaking into an MVII running VMS. (Watch for a future msg regarding my unsuccessful attempt at running up my MVII this morning) Can anybody describe a way to do this under RSX-11M+ v3.0? Of course, there *may* be something about this in my RSX-11M manuals but please suggest about which volume! It will take some time for me to get used to where stuff is in that 'Orange Wall'. VMS and RT-11 are also OSes I will likely get into and I have most of a 'Grey Wall' for VMS 5.4 and all of RT-11 4.2. And I need to get back into the IBM 9370 'Wall' sometime too. Sheesh, wish I had a photographic verbal memory or even something close! I'm using this PeeCee as a terminal. The simple communications program I use can capture all text sent from/to the uPDP. After I type-in the time and date the remains of a rather long script is run and the '>' prompt is all I get after the dust settles. No users are logged-in and I believe MCR is the CLI running. If anybody wants I can email an attached text file of the text lines displayed while the machine is starting up and running the script. This should show all the script contents as they're run. I shouldn't post it here unless a big bunch of folks want to see it. Perhaps I could be enlightened as to what all is going on while those 80-90 or so lines are scrolling up the screen. It has an earlier model processor module: KDJ11-AB (M8192-YB). So I don't have the fancy bootROM the newer models have as mentioned in the Micronotes Tim Shoppa pointed us to a day or two ago. Therefore, it is stone quiet until RSX is started from the disk. Had me wondering if this machine was dead until I found the correct one of the eight terminal ports and the right baudrate :) It has a Syquest cartridge drive. I know absolutely nothing about Syquest except what I've recently seen here (they're now a dead company somebody said.) The drive is a model SQ 312RD. Anybody fill me in on the specs, etc? Carts available??? Any other tape/cartridge drive available I should replace this with? I have an Emulex TC02 controller in this box, no tape drive at all though. Don't even know if the Emulex board works as there's no cartridge to try the Syquest with. Is there a Pertec-formatted tape drive which can hang off the Emulex which is half-height, 5.25" form (to replace the Syquest)? Software drivers?? I have no other way to back the system up at this time (floppies are probably out of the question because of quantity needed and huge PITA-factor) Yes, as I mentioned some months ago, I would be asking 'newbie' questions about some of this load of DEC gear I got. So here I go . . . more questions to come on this and other stuff as I get time. . . Thanks much, Chris -- -- Christian Fandt, Electronic/Electrical Historian Jamestown, NY USA cfandt(a)netsync.net Member of Antique Wireless Association URL: http://www.ggw.org/freenet/a/awa/